Love triangles in cinema are as old as cinema itself, but most play out along a few generally similar lines. Few take a path so unique as the course taken in François Truffaut’s Jules and Jim, a landmark of the French New Wave, a film that on one hand may seem like a light-hearted romance but on the other hand hits notes of great sadness and ugliness in the realism emblematic of the movement. My Jules and Jim Criterion Blu-ray review after the jump.
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